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[CITE: 16USC204]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
             SUBCHAPTER XXII--LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 204. Exclusive jurisdiction ceded to United States by 
        California
        
    Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over 
the territory which is included as of April 26, 1928, or thereafter 
within the Lassen Volcanic National Park, saving, however, to the State 
of California the right to serve civil or criminal process within the 
limits of the aforesaid park in suits or prosecutions for or on account 
of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said 
State outside of said park; and saving further to the said State the 
right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises and property on 
the lands included in said park, and the right to fix and collect 
license fees for fishing in said park; and saving also to the persons 
residing in said park now, or hereafter, the right to vote at all 
elections held within the county or counties in which said park is 
situated. All the laws applicable to places under sole and exclusive 
jurisdiction of the United States shall have force and effect in said 
park. All fugitives from justice taking refuge in said park shall be 
subject to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the State of 
California.

(Apr. 26, 1928, ch. 438, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 463.)

                          Codification

    A provision accepting the act of the California Legislature which 
ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the territory 
referred to in this section has been omitted as executed.
